Kent Christobel - The Crooked House A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In the chilling tradition of Daphne du Maurier and with the acuity of Kate Atkinson comes a haunting psychological thriller about one woman's search for the truth about her past through a closed community full of dark secrets. Alison is as close to anonymous as you can get: she has no ties and no home and her only anchors are her boyfriend and her small backroom job in publishing. Which is exactly how she wants it. Because once Alison was a teenager named Esme who lived in a remote dilapidated house by a bleary estuary with her parents and three siblings. One night something terrible happened in the family's crooked house leaving Alison the only survivor. In trying to escape its horror she moves away from the village changes her name and cuts herself off from her past. An invitation to a wedding in her hometown however brings her back for the first time since she fled. And soon Alison realizes that the events of that night left their awful mark not just on her but on the entire village and she begins to suspect that all the residents might somehow be implicated in her family's murder.
Title: The Crooked House A Novel
Author(s): Kent Christobel
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250117908
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/10/2017
Category: Thriller / Suspense